Incense

It seems a little incense got this dude highly incensed. Deputies arrested Antonio Raymond Campbell, 19, for allegedly threatening his mom after smoking some incense, also called fake pot, according to a news release from the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office. Campbell's mom called 911 Tuesday afternoon to report her son was tearing up their house after he allegedly asked her to buy him incense and she refused, deputies said. After the Port Charlotte teen broke a glass table he stated, “I'm going to kill you if you call the police,” according to the release.

Palm Beach County 's starring role in the synthetic marijuana trade is hitting the big screen early next year. "Not For Human Consumption," an independent film shot entirely in South Florida, is taking the local fake-weed storyline national, debuting in theaters in Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles. Loosely based on the experiences of the amateur North Palm Beach filmmaker who wrote the script, the feature-length movie explores the heady days when "smokable" herbal incense was legal but word was beginning to spread of its deadly effects.

When Margate police summoned Nancy Ferreira to a hospital emergency room on New Year's Eve, she saw her 14-year-old son having a seizure and struggling to breathe. "He had 10 seizures in total and his blood pressure was extremely high," Ferreira said. "He didn't know I was there. " Ferreira's two sons, 14 and 17, had been smoking "Mr. Nice Guy herbal smoke blend," a brand of incense that is labeled "not for human consumption" according to Margate police. Her elder son spent 24 hours in the hospital and was not as severely injured, she said.

The Boston Globe reports that ex-New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson made the extremely ill-advised decision to answer a question on a Houston sports radio show about which of his former teammates had the least-attractive wife. After a pause, he said: 'He won't hear this: Vince Wilfork' The former Santaluces High and University of Miami star defensive tackle took to social media, spewing expletive-laden invective at Johnson. To read the full report, click here for boston.com

In the two minutes and 20 seconds or so that it takes to cross "The Widest Avenue in the World" -- a contested title that will be defended below -- the fortunate pedestrian might notice some or all of the following: The faint whiff of burning incense. Ten dogs on one leash. A man rowing a boat on dry ground. The digitized chirping of imaginary birds. This is Avenida 9 de Julio, the often-clogged artery that runs through the heart of Argentina's capital. Downtown, the avenue stretches across 16 lanes of traffic -- and in some places balloons to several more, counting corollary streets that run immediately alongside in places.

Perhaps some New Age justice is in the offing at the Palm Beach County Courthouse. It turns out the decidedly un-judicial odor emanating from a courthouse office the other day was an employee burning incense. Presumably pleasing to the incense-burner, the fragrance prompted complaints. The incense incident generated an e-mail warning this week to the 3,000-plus people who work in the courthouse, Governmental Center and State Attorney's Office. "The burning of incense is not authorized," wrote Horst Haeusser, facilities manager for county office buildings in downtown West Palm Beach.

Black Mamba incense. Photo: Susan Stocker, Sun Sentinel. When Margate police summoned Nancy Ferreira to a hospital emergency room on New Year’s Eve, she saw her 14-year-old son having a seizure and struggling to breathe. “He had 10 seizures in total and his blood pressure was extremely high,” Ferreira said. “He didn’t know I was there.” Ferreira’s two sons, 14 and 17, had been smoking “Mr. Nice Guy herbal smoke blend,” a brand of incense that is labeled “not for human consumption” according to Margate police.

Synthetic marijuana, sold as incense under names like "Spice" and "K2," may soon be banned in Sunrise. Commissioner Joey Scuotto proposed the ban this week, saying he was worried about the dangers to teens and young adults who may not be aware of the potential side effects of the fake weed, which can mimic the "high" of marijuana. Though billed as benign, the synthetic drug has sent users to emergency rooms with increased heart rates, seizures, panic attacks and hallucinations.

Posted by Barbara Hijek on December 19, 2009 08:00 AM, December 19, 2009

Two Sarasota County high school kids learned the hard way that K2 is not OK. They landed in a hospital. K2 is a popular mix of herbs supposedly laced with chemicals designed to mimic the effects of marijuana, reports 10Connects.com. K2 is labeled as an "incense" and marked with the words, "not for human consumption" on the packaging. It's sold under the brand names Spice, Tribal Warrior and Fire and Ice. Puff at your own risk. Photo: 10Connects.com

The city unanimously approved a ban on the sale or distribution of synthetic herbal incense at Wednesday's commission meeting. The ordinance comes about two weeks after the county passed an ordinance banning all synthetic drugs. The city ban goes into effect immediately. "Creativity begins just with the names and these are in packages that are so attractive that youngsters are attracted to them not knowing what they are," said Commissioner Winston Barnes when the ordinance was first discussed Oct. 3. "It's extremely timely and extremely important for our city.

No more spice, K2, Cloud Nine, or Maui Wowie in Margate gas stations and convenience stores. Margate became the latest city in Broward County to ban the sale of herbal incense, otherwise known as fake marijuana, in an effort to combat the growing trend toward synthetic or "designer" drugs. "This is something that was brought to everyone's attention and we acted on it," Commissioner Frank Talerico said. "We don't want people to be getting hurt by this, especially our youth.

It seems a little incense got this dude highly incensed. Deputies arrested Antonio Raymond Campbell, 19, for allegedly threatening his mom after smoking some incense, also called fake pot, according to a news release from the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office. Campbell's mom called 911 Tuesday afternoon to report her son was tearing up their house after he allegedly asked her to buy him incense and she refused, deputies said. After the Port Charlotte teen broke a glass table he stated, “I'm going to kill you if you call the police,” according to the release.

The city is jumping on the synthetic drugs ban bandwagon, but has added its own twist. Commissioners gave preliminary approval Wednesday night to banning the popular designer drugs, but asked city staff to amend the new ordinance so that the bath salts and incense cannot be "given away free. " Commissioner Jay Schwartz brought up the loophole. The proposed new law already would prohibit sale or display of the drugs. The added clause would prevent a store from giving away the bath salts or incense, which some call fake cocaine and synthetic marijuana, as an add-on or freebie with another purchase.

Sold as herbal incense in candy-like packaging, synthetic marijuana is dangerous enough to outlaw. So say city and county officials around South Florida. Sweetwater has banned the stuff and Sunrise officials are expected to give final approval to a ban in June. Others may be close behind, including Broward and Miami-Dade counties, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, Deerfield Beach, Hallandale Beach, Pembroke Pines, Pompano Beach and Miami Gardens. Locales in Palm Beach County may also jump on the "ban" wagon.

Cloud Nine. Maui Wowie. Mr. Nice Guy. The names seem harmless, the packaging cool. But the side effects of synthetic marijuana, known on the street as Spice and K2, can be as serious as a heart attack, experts say. The problem exists nationwide, with users reporting elevated blood pressure, rapid heart rate, anxiety, nausea, seizures, hallucinations, vomiting and combativeness. For some, the bad trip has turned lethal. Dr. Peter Antevy, an ER doctor at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospitalin Hollywood, tells of people stoned on fake pot behaving as though they were possessed.

Sandalwood is familiar to us from incense sticks and perfumes (far more perfumes than most people suspect). It has nothing to do with sandals, by the way. The name comes, by a long and complicated route, from a Sanskrit word meaning "bright," perhaps referring to the light color of the wood, perhaps, in a metaphorical way, to its distinctive aroma. It's a large tree and an unusual one; it's what botanists call a hemiparasite. In one of those ruthless expedients that tropical creatures are driven to adopt, the sandalwood tree can produce its own food by photosynthesis, as other green plants do, and it can parasitize nutrients from other plants by means of sucker roots, like a fungus.

For the past few years, the 1960s have been rediscovered, re-invented and regurgitated. Miniskirts and false eyelashes, LSD and the Grateful Dead have all enjoyed revisionist status. It seems the only unexplored territory of that overworked decade is its smells: musk oil, patchouli and sandalwood. And guess what? They too are back. Twenty-five years ago, certain fragrances -- like rock `n` roll -- represented yet another gesture of rebellion. Mothers wore Chanel No. 5, an artificial aldehyde scent; their sons and daughters wore patchouli essence, plucked almost directly from the plant.

Synthetic marijuana, sold as incense under names like "Spice" and "K2," may soon be banned in Sunrise. Commissioner Joey Scuotto proposed the ban this week, saying he was worried about the dangers to teens and young adults who may not be aware of the potential side effects of the fake weed, which can mimic the "high" of marijuana. Though billed as benign, the synthetic drug has sent users to emergency rooms with increased heart rates, seizures, panic attacks and hallucinations.

A new poll by George Barna finds the young and middle-aged are more like each other in their religious beliefs -- and less religious than the oldest Americans. Americans 28 to 46 years old read the Bible more, volunteer at church more, and say they've been "born again" more than their elders did 20 years ago, according to the second analysis of Barna's January survey of American religion. What's more, 60 percent say they've made a "personal commitment" to Jesus -- 12 percent higher than 20 years ago -- and 80 percent accept the label of Christian.